Example sentences of "so [adj] that in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |
| 2 | The paperwork was so vast that in 1988 I had to add an entire floor in my house in Ireland to accommodate it , and that turned out not to be enough . |
| 3 | The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards . |
| 4 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 5 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |